'JACKED: How My Inner Ninja Dodged a Bullet - or 3 (Survival Skills With Dr Drea)

'Jacked is more than a story of fear and violence and near-death experiences. It is more than the sum of its parts; it has an embedded narrative- a nostalgia, a smell of sea and salt; It is a portrait of a childhood mired between the hazy Cape mountains and misty seas, which gives way to a vast landscape of oppression, mishap, anger and hatred. A chilling backdrop of treachery, abuse and betrayal as a young woman, isolated in the wake of two brutal regimes, navigates her way out. It is most significantly a survival guide, for kindred spirits, women warriors, like the author, who despite the intense odds, haven't given up their freedom, purpose or innnate sense of self.